Heavy lifting: Boeing’s test flight crews often take advantage of their cross-country flights, enjoying the local cuisine on their brief stops. Most recently, the crew of a 747-8 Freighter flew a scheduled flight from Seattle to Pennsylvania, then called in a to-go order to Pittsburgh’s Primanti Bros. sandwich shop, famous for sandwiches piled sky high with tomatoes, cole slaw and french fries.
Fortunately, the 747-8 is a cargo plane, and the crew was able to stay under its weight limit and make the flight home.
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Cue the montage scene: The manager of a New Hampshire apartment complex says she will require all residents with dogs to submit a DNA sample from their canines so that DNA can be matched against any dog droppings that aren’t cleaned up.
Producers for “CSI: Miami” were already working on script changes to work the dog doo angle into an upcoming episode.
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They shoot spectators, don’t they? A gunslinger in an Old West show in Pierre, S.D., had live bullets in his gun instead of blanks and injured three spectators during a mock shoot-out.
Police investigating the accidental shooting also might want to check the contents of the gunslinger’s “mock” whiskey bottle.
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